2nd to last race weekend!!

Thursday was 5 loads of laundry up at Bellerive’s house –

Friday morning up at 7:30 (the dogs new wake-up time………..) and before we left I fed dogs, washed my hair, fed Randy, made tuna salad, packed a lunch, washed dishes,vacuumed the house, got water, got my bathroom “in order” and got myself ready to go and dropped the dogs by 10:15!!  Whew!!

The gps on the phone said it would be 3 hours 45 minutes to go up to St. Felicien near Lac St. Jean – so I knew it would take us over 4 hours – we did get there by 3 – and the trip was beautiful – clear roads and the whole route follows along a river with high cliffs on the other side.  The snow held off until we arrived but then came in earnest……….we have gotten at least 8 inches of new snow since we arrived!!!  We are situated on a hill (which means it’s downhill to the start line and then up hill bringing the dogs back!!!) and overlooking a ski area with about 5 hills and a chair lift.  I really wanted to go skiing but not only did they not have any rentals, but I decided it wouldn’t be good to get injured when we have this and one more race to go – Randy wouldn’t do well handling dogs all by himself!

So we were hoping for a good draw (the only good one he had was the first race and that got cancelled!) but he got 14^th out of 18 teams!!!  That means the trail will just be chewed up more by the time he gets out!!  We race at 2 and have to help our friends with their 6 dog teams so more later!!!